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What do you mean by dry branches?

The trunk branch is a traditional time-keeping method in China, which means that the twelve earthly branches and ten trunk branches form a time-keeping method of 60 units.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches, the main branch for short, originated from the observation of astronomical phenomena in ancient China. Ten cadres refer to meeting, understanding, soft omen, strong feelings, harmony, earth prestige, chapter, emphasizing light, mystery and zhaoyang. Twelve branches refer to being sleepy, enthusiastic, photogenic, single-handed, in charge of Xu, in the wild, escaping, coordinating, going to the beach, in a bad mood, castrating, and having great depth.

Simplified heavenly stems and earthly branches: "A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren, Gui" is called ten heavenly stems, and "Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai" is called twelve earthly branches.

Ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches are collocated in turn to form sixty basic units, and they cooperate with each other in a fixed order to form the chronology of the stems and branches. Heavenly stems and earthly branches's invention has far-reaching influence, and he still uses heavenly stems and earthly branches in calendar, tricks, calculation, naming and so on.

Feng Shui Significance of Branches and Branches

1, azimuth orientation. Different branches correspond to different directions, for example, meridian corresponds to the south, You Mao corresponds to the west, Tatsumi corresponds to the east, and sea domain corresponds to the north. When choosing a house or building a house, we should choose the corresponding main branch direction according to the purpose of the house, so as to achieve the purpose of feng shui livable.

2, the five elements are in harmony. Different branches represent different five elements, such as Zi and Chen belong to wood, Ugliness and Xu belong to earth, Yin and Mao belong to wood, noon and noon belong to fire, Shen and You belong to gold, Hai and Si belong to water. When choosing a house or building a house, we should choose a matching branch according to the five elements of the occupants in order to achieve a dynamic and static balance.

3. Harmony between Yin and Yang. Branches can be divided into yin branches and yang branches. When choosing a house to build a house, we should choose an appropriate combination of yin and yang to achieve the goal of harmony between yin and yang. For example, houses in the east, west, north and south should choose not to have two branches of the same nature.